I've been seeing a bunch lately on lease roads all over the Permian Basin, good to see them back.
Texas Horned Lizard
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Would it be illegal or unethical to relocate one into a terrarium at the house? That would be cool to have one. Feed it ants or crickets or whatever they like to eat.
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Keep in mind, you need to draw a line roughly from Vernon down to Del Rio. West of that line is the Round-tailed horned lizard, and they've always done relatively well. East of that line is the Texas horned lizard, aka horny toad, this is the one that is a threatened species.
We also have the Greater short horned lizard in the Davis and Guadalupe mountains. This one is doing fairly decent too.
There are fairly significant differences.
We also have the Greater short horned lizard in the Davis and Guadalupe mountains. This one is doing fairly decent too.
There are fairly significant differences.
A Texas horned lizard, yes, it would be illegal to have in your possession.
quote:My grandpa's farm was in Fairy... Spent a lot of time out there growing up.quote:
(ie improved/clean/monoculture pastures,
F*** coastal bermuda.
TexAg, lived a little here and a little there, but in Hamilton Co. I lived in Hico. Mid-late 80s in junior high.
Oops, I somehow responded to the lion thread over here. Now I know where my long post went.
quote:I bet I'm the only guy on TexAgs who's mother graduated from Sparenberg High School. Dad was from Ackerly. Still have family north of Ackerly.
Found this little guy last year during dove season. Dawson County...Sparenberg area
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quote:quote:I bet I'm the only guy on TexAgs who's mother graduated from Sparenberg High School. Dad was from Ackerly. Still have family north of Ackerly.
Found this little guy last year during dove season. Dawson County...Sparenberg area
I'd say that's a pretty safe bet. Is the school house in Sparenberg even still there/operational? Seems most likely that kids feed into Lamesa schools.
Not from the area so have no idea. Just have a customer in Lamesa who's nice enough to let me bird hunt some of his land.
I think the ruins of mom's old school may still be there. It consolidated with Ackerly decades ago. If your customer has a last name of Skinner, Brown, Batson, Nichols, Houchin, Hunter, Furlow, Oakes (or others I can't recall right now) I am probably an inlaw, outlaw, cousin, etc.
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I think the ruins of mom's old school may still be there. It consolidated with Ackerly decades ago. If your customer has a last name of Skinner, Brown, Batson, Nichols, Houchin, Hunter, Furlow, Oakes (or others I can't recall right now) I am probably an inlaw, outlaw, cousin, etc.
No sir, Stevens. Are they kin?
Sorry, no.
Found this little guy this morning in the RGV
Saw a dozen little ones this weekend in Andrews county while shredding and mowing this weekend. They were all about the size of a dime.
Ok, I'm not actively searching for these little guys day in and day out, but this is the third I've seen in as many months down here in the RGV. I'm guessing the 70+ inches of rain we had earlier in the year gave them a much needed boost. This one was running around our packing shed this afternoon.
almost stepped on this guy due to looking up for winged snacks for tomorrows game
From Hooker, Oklahoma:
NE Scurry county.
Saw this little guy in Reeves County this afternoon. About 2 inches long.
Couple of new photos for this old thread. Seen at my Randall County farm today. The blur over his head in pic 2 is a blade of grass.
Great to see these little fellas making a comeback in Texas.
I have always wanted to see one in the wild. I spent half my time outdoors searching for lizards, snakes, and various other small animals in Victoria County as a kid and have hunted there every year of my adult life and I have never seen hide nor hair of one in that area, though I have found and positively identified a swamp rabbit, jackrabbit, ring-tailed cat, way too many nutria, bald eagles, and a swallow tailed kite all within the last ten years.
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quote:Well that might explain something. Our girls basketball team played against Hooker, Oklahoma last year. When I saw a dozen young ladies walk into the room with HOOKER written across their shirts, I was wondering, Hmmm, why don't they use the mascot for their girls teams jerseys. I guess that is why...
From Hooker, Oklahoma:
But anyway, up here in the northern Panhandle I probably see 400 to 500 horned lizards per year.
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Populations of the misnamed "horny toad" (they are not amphibians, but reptiles) had been decimated over the past several decades, although in many areas they are apparently stabilizing. There have been numerous theories presented as to the reasons for the decline, ranging from man's use of pesticide to collection for the pet trade. However, many studies have shown that the appearance of the imported fire ant has had the most influence.
Look for them where the fire ants aren't. West Texas, Eastern New Mexico, Western Oklahoma, etc.
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Fire ants don't help with recolonization, but they did not cause the initial decline. Simply put, you have to have harvester ants. Oddly enough, once harvesters reestablish themselves, it's not a given horned lizards will reestablish. Lots of need work on this issue.
What did cause the initial decline?
Combo of factors, increased improved pastures, urbanization in the blackland prairie (virtually none left), and the fact that harvester ants are seemingly sensitive to most pesticides. Again, no harvesters no horned lizards.
Bringing this thread back from the dead. Set a new record today for the smallest THL I've ever seen. Tiny little sucker, I seriously thought it was a bug when I first saw him moving.
We had a small THL in our flowers bed earlier this summer, but I haven't seen him since. I live in Southwest Lubbock. I still call them Horny Toads. 
Grew up doing the same thing next county over in Brown County.str8shot1000 said:
When I was a kid growing up in Comanche Co. they were very commonplace. I loved setting one in the middle of a red ant bed and watching them go to town. We didn't have fire ants back then either.
I hope they make a comeback!!!
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Used to catch them regularly in the rocky hills of northern Ellis County back in the 70's. I even had one 'spit blood' on me in the early 80's.
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We found one about that size a few months back while driving the kids around in the ranger. Mr. Diesel sent a pic to his friend that does the counts for a living in the mines and he couldn't believe we found one that small!
Thanks for resurrecting Canyon. Can't compete with smallest but I saw three in one day back in June. Totally amazed - maybe they are making a comeback.
Very cool pics!
We used to track those little horny toads in the drift sand that collected in the ditches of unpaved roads, probably not very far from where Hamburger Dan currently resides (61st & Slide). You could tell their size by the width of their tracks, but you had to get out in the morning before the wind blew.
We used to track those little horny toads in the drift sand that collected in the ditches of unpaved roads, probably not very far from where Hamburger Dan currently resides (61st & Slide). You could tell their size by the width of their tracks, but you had to get out in the morning before the wind blew.
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My uncle used to live in Rotan in the 60's. There were so many horned toads that we couldn't mow his back yard without killing one or two of them. I remember almost filling the bottom of a No. 2 washtub with just the ones that we caught in the alley behind his house (probably about 30). I took some of them home and eventually released them. If you turned them on their backs and gently rubbed their bellies, they would lay motionless in your hand (a technique that almost every kid in our neighborhood learned).
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